Lexical simplification benchmarks for English, Portuguese, and Spanish.

ABSTRACT: Even in highly-developed countries, as many as 15-30% of the population can only understand texts written using a basic vocabulary. Their understanding of everyday texts is limited, which prevents them from taking an active role in society and making informed decisions regarding healthcare, legal representation, or democratic choice. Lexical simplification is a natural language processing task that aims to make text understandable to everyone by replacing complex vocabulary and expressions with simpler ones, while preserving the original meaning. It has attracted considerable attention in the last 20 years, and fully automatic lexical simplification systems have been proposed for various languages. The main obstacle for the progress of the field is the absence of high-quality datasets for

SUBMITTER: Stajner S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9536312 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature